Woven Lives: Partition Stories Through Textiles

This trail at the Partition Museum Amritsar weaves together threads of trade, tradition, trauma, and tenacity.

Aditi Chaudhary

Programme Manager, Cultre

Textile Labels/ Shipper’s Tickets

These vivid chromolithograph labels that were

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Amritsar’s Hall Bazaar

Phulkari Coat and Leather Bag of Pritam Kaur and Bhagwan Singh Maini

Bhagwan Singh Maini Pritam Kaur

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Embroidered Textile by Santosh (1948)

Tetulia, East Pakistan

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Burkha of Tikka Rani Jagjit Kaur Bedi

Jagjit Kaur ever

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Sewing Machine

Mrs. Bhatia

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